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The other coloring ink work fine except for the black ink. I use the transferable with syringe on it 's carthridge once ;can this clogged the tip end?

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Hi,

Yes clogging can be one of the reason here. You can check this as follows: gently blot the print head on a damp tissue. A good cartridge will leave a full dark band of ink. Your cartridge will likely leave a weak smudge of ink, with perhaps none if you repeat. BTW, on your printer a remanufactured cartridge would show as full even if it is empty. The printer will assume any cartridge it does not recognize must be a new (full) cartridge. Only if after cleaning the head it does not work then please replace the cartridge. Please let me know if this does not help else please accept it.

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